My predecessor and friend Dr. Robert C. (Ric) Cannada, Jr., chancellor emeritus of Reformed Theological Seminary (RTS), is spending a lot of time in Indonesia these days, expanding Christian education and fostering an amazing movement of Reformed influence. It all began when Ric received an invitation to guest-teach at a Reformed seminary in Jakarta—Indonesia’s capital city of 16 million people. He realized he could do that while visiting Jakarta for the first time, to attend the 2009 meeting of World Reformed Fellowship. In Jakarta,…Ric Cannada and RTS, at work in Indonesia
My predecessor and friend Dr. Robert C. (Ric) Cannada, Jr., chancellor emeritus of Reformed Theological Seminary (RTS), is spending a lot of time in Indonesia these days, expanding Christian education and fostering an amazing movement of Reformed influence. It all began when Ric received an invitation to guest-teach at a Reformed seminary in Jakarta—Indonesia’s capital city of 16 million people. He realized he could do that while visiting Jakarta for the first time, to attend the 2009 meeting of World Reformed Fellowship. In Jakarta,…
IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776 The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America The Declaration of Independence was a statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies, then at war with Great Britain, regarded themselves as independent states, and no longer a part of the British Empire. John Adams put forth a resolution earlier in the year which made a formal declaration inevitable. A committee was assembled to draft the formal declaration, to be ready when congress…
I want to commend to you the free RTS Mobile App. You can get it at Apple iTunes and it is now available on the Amazon App store for all Kindle devices! RTS Mobile, the official RTS App, is also available on Android and Windows Phones. We are constantly updating and improving the App, and its contents. One nice new feature is the ability to Click one button “Blogs and Social Media” and have access to a one stop entry point for everyone in the RTS system with an online presence. But you can also apply to RTS, read news about RTS,…
Here’s some good pre-4th of July reading for you from Historian Thomas S. Kidd. Dr. Kidd is a professor at Baylor, an expert in early American history and is the author of a new biography of George Whitefield that is due out this autumn. Here…
Very soon, Banner of Truth Trust will be releasing a new commentary on the Westminster Confession of Faith by Reformed Theological Seminary, Washington, DC Associate Professor of Church History, Dr. Chad Van Dixhoorn. Here is my commendation of this…
A Prayer for Hope. For those in desperate need of it. Heavenly Father, My hope is faint today. Help me. Help me to endure when I feel no hope. Forge a hope-producing character in me. Do not let me be ashamed.
Supposing you were suddenly to find yourself among 7,000 mainly young people, singing without any band, Reginald Heber’s ‘Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty!’, and gathered to hear sermons for three days, you might well wonder where you were…
Kevin DeYoung, Al Mohler and I recently sat down to talk about the importance of inerrancy for preaching. Here’s a short clip of the video. We will be part of an Inerrancy Summit at The Shepherd’s Conference, March 3-8, 2015. For more…
RTS Washington Professor of Church History, Dr. Chad Van Dixhoorn is perhaps the world’s leading expert on the work of the Westminster Assembly. His massive five-volume work The Minutes and Papers of the Westminster Assembly, 1643-1653 (Oxford…